Sheet pack holder



Jan. 22, 1952 E. c. H. WYLES SHEET PACK HOLDER A Filed Feb. 2'7, 1946 url 1 \IA. a jail.

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Patented Jan. 22, 1952 SHEET PACK HOLDER Edwin Charles Herbert Wyles, Beeston, England, assignor to Boots Pure Drug Company Limited,

Nottingham, England Britain ,a company of Great Application February 27, 1946, Serial No. 650,415

In Great Britain March 8, 1945 l This invention relates to racks for carrying piles of labels, standard forms, and paper or card sheets in the form of superimposed packs. The invention provides an apparatus which is suitable for supporting one or more packs of,

paper sheets, which are attached to a relatively rigid backing. The object of the invention is to enable sets of such packs to be stored ready for use in an orderly fashion, and in a condition where the top sheet of a pack can be readily examined and one of the sheets, such as is needed at any time, can be detached, leaving the remainder of the pack intact, and in position.

The invention consists in a rack essentially comprising a strip, which is supported by thin spacers from a supporting surface in such a way that the back sheet of a pack of sheets or a stiffer backing attached to the back can be inserted between the supporting strip and the supporting board so that the pack of sheets can remain thus suspended in position. In addition, however, it is arranged for the packs to be locked in position so that the act of detaching the top sheet of one pack does not cause the whole pack to be pulled out of position. For this purpose, along the top of the pack or packs, slightly above the level of the upper surface, is a groove in the supporting board, which receives a lockingbar, which projects sufliciently to prevent a pack being taken out from the supporting strip until the locking bar has been removed.

In the case of a rack which isnot of great lateral width, the locking bar can slide out at one end, being made a sufliciently tight fit in the groove, so that it does not slide accidentally. However, in order that the locking bar may be taken out and re-ins-erted in a case where it is not possible or convenient to slide it out at the end of a rack, the groove may be made of dovetailed section and the locking bar formed with a number of corresponding dovetailed roots. The dovetailed roots thus can slide in the groove, but at alternate lengths of the groove one of the walls is cut away for a distance corresponding to the lengths of the roots on the locking bar-then by sliding the locking bar until its roots register with such cut away lengths in the groove, the locking bar can be drawn forwardly, exposing the supporting strip, so that packs can be replenished or further packs slipped into position over the supporting strip. Then the locking bar can be restored by placing its root portions in registration with the cut away parts of the groove, and then sliding the locking bar into the locking position.

3 Claims. (01. 11-4) In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into efiect, a rack suitable for carrying sets of labels in a chemists anddruggists shop, will now be described by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure l is a perspective view of one end portion of the rack with'three sets of the labels in position;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the rack; and

Figure 3 is a vertical section taken on the line TIL-III in Figure 2.

As can be seen from Figure 1, each pack of labels a consists of a set of labels backed by a stiffer sheet I) secured to the layers by a length of adhesive tape a. The backing sheet b is free at its lower edge so that it can be hooked over a thin metal strip d, thesheet 12 passing between the strip at and the front of a board e which serves as the support by being fixed to a wall or the like. The strip d is fixed to the board c with thin spacers ,f interposed so as to provide the spaces to receive the backing sheets I).

When the labels a are suspended from the strip d as seen in Figure 1, they are locked in position by sliding a locking bar 9 in a groove h in the board e, until the bar 9 passes above the acks of labels a as seen in Figure 2, so as to prevent a pack being taken from the strip (1 until the looking bar g has been removed.

The groove h is of dovetailed section and the bar 9' is provided with roots is of similar section so that normally the bar y can be removed by being drawn lengthwise. However, it is often not convenient to have to slide the bar a completely out of one end of the groove 71, especially if the rack is of considerable width. Therefore the dovetailed roots do not extend along the whole of the back of the locking bar g, but are made as a number of individual roots as seen in Figure 2, but at intervals the upper or lower wall or both walls of the groove h is cut away as at l for lengths at least as long as the roots k. Thus, it is only necessary for the locking bar 9 to be slid by an amount necessary to cause its roots is to register with the cut-away parts 1 of the groove h. to enable the locking bar 9 to be drawn forwardly and removed. Then the supporting strip d is exposed and one or more of the packs a can be lifted 01f and replaced by further packs of labels. It is then only necessary to replace the locking bar 9 by placing its roots k in registration with the cutaway parts Z of the groove h and then sliding the bar 9 into the locking position.

I claim:

1. A holder for a sheet-pack having a stiff backing; said holder comprising a supporting board having a substantially horizontal groove formed in the front face thereof, a thin strip secured at both ends thereof to :the board below said groove "and parallel thereto but spaced slightly away from'the surface of said board so that the backing of a pack can be hooked over said strip and said pack suspended from it, and a locking bar for retaining the pack in position, said locking bar being mounted in frontfo'f said groove and extending outwardly from the face "of said board in closely spacedrelation withtheupper edge of said pack, and said locking bar having parts extending into said groove ainto interlocking relation with parts of said board to lock the bar against transverse movement While permitting sliding of said bar lengthwise of said groove'toa position where said interlocking parts become disengaged. V

2. A-holder according to :c1aim 1 wherein the groove in said supporting board is formed of a dove-tail section, and the interlocking part of said locking bar comprises a plurality of dove-tailed 4 roots spaced along the underside of said bar and positioned in said groove so that the inclined walls of said roots engage with the inclined walls of said groove, said groove having a plurality of spaced cut-away portions to enable said locking bar to be withdrawn after sliding it along said (groove the length of one of said roots. I

3. A holder according to claim 1 wherein said snack-supporting strip is of a length to support a plurality of packs in side-by-side relation, and including fastening means interposed between ad- ;jacent ;packs.for holding said strip in spaced relation to the fiaceof said board.

,EDWIN CHARLES HERBERT WYLES.

REFERENCES CITED The-following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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